“We are holding this meeting today because the government has submitted a legal act (a draft of the presidential decree) on the improvement of certain norms regulating the management and operation of this park,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

Effective interaction between Belarus and Russia has become the main stumbling block for the West in its conquest and colonization of the world, Nikolai Shchekin said.

Winners of art competitions held within the framework of the Vytoki cultural and sport festival in Orsha were announced on 6 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the National Olympic Committee of Belarus.

In January-May 2021 Belarusians bought $426.7 million worth of foreign currency more than they sold, BelTA learned from the statistics released by the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB).

Following the Belarusian-African business forum that took place in Minsk, the agency hosted a meeting of business circles, representatives of the agency and Mogilev Free Economic Zone.

In May 2021, the country's gold and foreign currency reserves went up by $485.2 million (by 6.7%) following the April growth of $337.9 million (4.9%).

The Russian diplomat is in Brest Oblast on a multi-day visit. “The choice of the region has been made not by accident. If there is number one on car license plates, that is the first place you should go to,” Yevgeny Lukyanov joked.

The NOC president added that he has known Orsha since his childhood, spent a lot of time in the city, and added that the district center has changed significantly over the years and has become more beautiful.

The president expressed confidence that in 2021 Sweden will continue to fulfill its responsible obligations as the OSCE president for the sake of strengthening security in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space.

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 399,852 cases. A total of 392,366 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Belarus' Agriculture and Food Minister Ivan Krupko also spoke about the international specialized exhibition Belagro 2021. According to him, the event was attended by 410 companies from 16 countries.

According to the prime minister of Belarus, a large number of foreign companies operate in Belarus, including those from the countries pursuing a particularly unfriendly policy.

The government was instructed to prepare a draft law to amend the Belarusian laws “On Emergency” and “On Martial Law” in order to create additional conditions to prevent and neutralize the risks, challenges and threats to national security.

The concept of an R&D program “Accelerator complex based on superconducting resonators” of the Union State of Belarus and Russia will be agreed soon.

Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov reminded those present that the working group on radioelectronic warfare had been established by the Defense Ministers Council resolution of 4 September 2020 upon the initiative of the CS...

The Faculty of Journalism of Belarusian State University (BSU) has become a member of the Eurasian Media Studies Center of Russia's Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU).

Pavel Miadzvedzeu, Ilya Fedarenka, Kiryl Nikitsin, and Vitaliy Bialko won the K4 Men 1000m event in 3:02.023. Silver went to Hungary (+0.673). Russia was third (+1.827). Belarus was also first in the event in Belgrade in 2018.

These and other issues were discussed at the meeting of Belarus' Deputy Healthcare Minister Boris Androsyuk and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South Korea to Belarus Tae Jung Yeol.

The Belarusian air carrier Belavia is resuming flights to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and increasing the number of flights to Istanbul, Tbilisi, and Batumi, BelTA learned from Belavia's website.

The document stipulates that the Indian partner will purchase at least 200 BELARUS tractors before the end of 2021.

Aliaksandr Radionau (69kg), Vitali Bandarenka (75kg) and Mikhail Dauhaliavets (81kg) will hold fights on 4 June.

At the beginning of the session Natalya Kochanova explained that Minsk District had been selected because it is the largest one in Minsk Oblast and has certain peculiarities due to its proximity to the capital.

The main avenues of development of Eurasian economic integration until 2025 are meant to benefit citizens of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Aide to the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Iya Malkina said.

According to Iya Malkina, the EEC delegation was repeatedly asked about the possibility of expanding the EAEU on the sidelines of the ongoing International Economic Forum in St Petersburg, Russia.

Plans are in place to include the financing of the renovations of the Brest Fortress in the Belarus-Russia Union State budget for 2022.

The Belarusian clocked 11.52 seconds in the 100m preliminary heat. In the final race the Belarusian improved her performance to finish first with the time of 11.22 seconds.

The interview given by Roman Protasevich is another proof of the West's interference in Belarus' affairs, Chairman of the Standing Commission on State Building, Local Government and Regulations Valentin Semenyako told BelTA.

The former world number one cruised past world number 24 Madison Keys of the United States 6-2, 6-2 in an hour and one minute.

At the enterprise Aleksandr Lukashenko was accompanied by a big group of civil servants – high-ranking officials from the region, Granit CEOs, ministers and vice premiers. Chairman of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee Yuri Shuleiko, first of all...

Mikhail Orda said: “What European countries did to Belavia once again demonstrates that the European Union completely ignores international law and legality per se. There is no investigation into the incident with [Ryanair's Athens-Vilnius] flight....

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 398,052 cases. A total of 389,929 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Achieving one's goals with the help of sanctions is impossible, BelTA learned from Tamara Shatlikova, a member of the Standing Commission on Legislation and State Construction of the Council of the Republic.

Russia's Petersburg Tractor Plant, Minsk Tractor Plant (MTZ trademark), and the Belarusian agricultural machinery manufacturer Gomselmash have decided to develop long-term and mutually beneficial partnership.

Mikhail Myasnikovich said: “The commission is working on two agreements. Those include an agreement on the common market of natural gas. With it we intend to enable equal conditions for commercial entities."

The vaccines that are used for the vaccination include Gam-COVID-Vac (a combined vector vaccine) and Vero Cell (inactivated vaccine known as SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine) made by Beijing Bio-Institute of Biological Products Co Ltd.

The head of state explained that the reconstruction of this road is very important. “We will build this road, no matter what it costs us. It will be like Brest-Moscow highway, even better,” the president said.

Mikhail Myasnikovich said that all the goals specified by the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty of 2014 are supposed to be reached by 2025. In his words, the strategic directions of Eurasian integration for the period till 2025 that the EAEU presidents ...

According to Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Andrei Savinykh, the gap between the interests of Ukrainian citizens and the slowly degrading political struc...

The unfriendly moves by the West are an attempt to extend its reach to Russia and get Belarus out of the way as it is seen as a competitor, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he spoke with the staff of the Granit company on 4 June.

Nam Chang Co., Ltd. became the first South Korean company accredited at the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange. This brought the number of countries represented at BUCE to 65.

The MP said: “According to the established procedure the bill has been prepared and approved by permanent commissions. We've received a conclusion from expert bodies. Minor technical amendments have been introduced. As a matter of fact, the bill is...

Aleksandr Lukashenko instructed the deputy head of the Belarus President Administration and the governor to address the issue within a week.

The Energy Ministry stressed: “Stress tests should not be a subject of political manipulations. It contradicts their main purpose – higher safety and reliability of nuclear power plants in Europe. The organization of stress tests and the implemen...

“Julie Fisher is personally free to support any legitimate aspirations of any citizens, even in Greenland or the North Pole, because officially she has nothing to do with Belarus yet,” Anatoly Glaz said in response.

Nordwind Airlines have expanded the list of direct flights between Kazan International Airport and Minsk National Airport and launched regular a direct flight from Kazan to Minsk.

“The government will take appropriate measures so that no one would interfere with your work on the domestic market,” said Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Enterprises and organizations of the construction industry of Belarus should promote their products and services more actively, Belarusian Architecture and Construction Minister Ruslan Parkhamovich said.

“In the recent months (then it seemed to me like some distant matter), even before all this had happened, I started to understand what was going on. I began to realize what had happened, how many bad things had been done. I thought about it a lot, ...

The head of state was informed about the implementation of the project “Intellectual quarry. Unmanned mining technologies at the Sitnitskoye mine” with the help of state transmission technologies through 5G networks.

“The NAM [National Anti-Crisis Management] was supposed to be launched by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. It should have been, in fact, her cabinet of ministers. However, a day before the launch, Latushko somehow got his hands on everything and declared th...

“A lot of data was handed over by former police officers. In fact, there were ‘rats' inside who would easily give away their coworkers, former colleagues,” said Roman Protasevich.

“Immediately report this issue to the prime minister so that we can deal with it. However, why keep pushing problems up all the time? You also need to do something about it. This problem should be addressed, it is not catastrophic,” the president...

Roman Protasevich said that he spent only a month and a half in the ATO zone in Ukraine in 2014 and never took part in hostilities. He was a member of the Belarusian Pogonya unit, which was attached to the Azov battalion. According to the young man, ...

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko is on a working trip to Brest Oblast where he inspects the Granit enterprise where a new mining and processing plant is being built.In Mikashevichi, Aleksandr Lukashenko will be updated on the social and economi...

According to Roman Protasevich, he also participated in online meetings of the plotters. When the opposition was working on a plan of a mutiny in Belarus, he acted as a link between them and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

“He received international recognition and fame for everything that I did. And he never mentioned me anywhere. His ego grew so rapidly that after becoming famous, he would make insulting jokes about me and look at me with disdain,” Roman Protasev...

Roman Protasevich said that often even he - “one of the key fighters on this information war” - did not have access to meetings where the Belarusian opposition planned their actions.

"It became clear to me that many things Aleksandr Lukashenko was criticized for were just attempts to pressure him. And that in many situations he acted like a man with balls of steel (pardon my language), despite all the pressure and so on,” Roman...

The third round of political consultations was held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique on 3 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign ...

The visit was organized to implement the memorandum of understanding between Gosatomnadzor and the Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Turkey on cooperation and information exchange in the area of nuclear safety and radiation protection.

The construction of the heavy oil hydrocracking complex is Mozyr Oil Refinery's largest investment project on record. Its cost is estimated to exceed $1.45 billion. The heavy oil hydrocracking complex comprises an integrated hydrocracking unit, a hyd...

"Belarus is interested in the development of Eurasian economic integration in such areas as forecasting, state support for agriculture, food security of the EAEU, circulation of warehouse certificates, manufacture of organic products, uniform rules ...

Belarus has taken retaliatory measures in response to the U.S. sanctions against the Belarusian state petrochemical concern Belneftekhim, Anatoly Glaz, Press Secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said answering a question by the Sp...

The Eurasian Economic Union may implement a preferential trade regime not only with individual member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations but also with the ASEAN as a whole, Member of the Board (Minister) for Integration and Macroeco...

According to Aleksandr Bashliy, head of foreign trade at BUCE, all leading agricultural holdings and agricultural complexes of the country are accredited and successfully operate on the commodity exchange, which allows foreign companies to quickly pu...

Kyrgyzstan's Avia Traffic Company will operate regular direct flights on the route Bishkek-Minsk-Bishkek from 25 June. The flight will be performed twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, and will be served by Airbus A-320.

The interim free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union member states and Iran was signed on 17 May 2018 and entered into force on 27 October 2019. The parties shall enter into negotiations on signing a full-fledged free trade agreement ...

The first flight from Kaliningrad to Minsk is scheduled for 11 June. The flight will be performed once a week, on Fridays, and will be served by the L-410 aircraft that can seat 15 people.

Russian special services appreciate partner relations with their Belarusian counterparts, Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin said following a joint meeting with the State Security Committee (KGB) of Belarus.

The actions of Western countries towards Russia and Belarus have been aggressive. But Russia, like Belarus, will defend its right to sovereign development, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) director Sergei Naryshkin said.

The Labor and Social Security Ministry has presented its stand at the exhibition of the 27th international forum on information and communications technologies TIBO 2021 which is underway in Minsk on 1-4 June.

Participation of the general public in addressing environmental issues is very important, Belarus' Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Andrei Khudyk said as he addressed the 1st international environmental exhibition-forum Ecology...

According to Mogilev Oblast Vice Governor Ruslan Strakhar, the region cooperates with five Chinese provinces today.

Belarus and Lithuania are connected by 13 power lines, including four 330kV backbone power lines. In line with the BRELL agreement [Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania] the sides manage their operation together via control centers on each...

The hosts held a slight advantage at the beginning of the match which took place at the Dinamo Stadium in Minsk.

“Due to the closure of airspace by a number of countries, travel agencies and Belavia are organizing evacuation flights from Albania, Tunisia and Montenegro along the routes bypassing the closed airspaces,” the company said in a statement.

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 396,869 cases. A total of 388,632 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Sergei Naryshkin and Ivan Tertel discussed results and prospects of interaction in securing national interests of Russia and Belarus in the face of the aggressive policy the USA and Western countries pursue with regard to Belarus and Russia.

The Vytoki cultural and sport festival has opened in Orsha with a program of historical and cultural heritage, BelTA learned from the press service of the National Olympic Committe of Belarus.

The green agenda permeates all economic sectors, Belarus' Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Subbotin said at the 1st edition of the international environmental exhibition-forum Ecology Expo 2021 and the 16th national environmental forum.

The staff negotiations took place in line with this year's plan on the joint training of command and control bodies and forces and assets of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Aleksandr Lukashenko thanked Raul Castro Ruz for his invaluable personal contribution to the development of the Belarusian-Cuban relations in all areas of mutual interest and wished him heath and success in the service to his country and nation.

According to the energy minister, incentives to encourage Belarusians to consume more electricity are already available in the country. Discounted tariffs on electricity are in place. The state reimburses some of the money citizens spend on buying el...

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko instructed to build more electric vehicle charging stations in Belarus as he heard out a report on the development of the Belarusian energy sector on 3 June.

“I want to ask you to keep calm and not to fret about what to do with extra energy and where to sell it. If we act in a smart way, we will use it up and even need more. This is a super clean source of energy, it is needed everywhere: from housing t...

I intend to visit the newly commissioned cardboard factory in Dobrush, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Nazarov, Belarus President's Aide Aleksandr Kosinets and Energy Minister Viktor Karankevic...

Belarus' world number 16 Victoria Azarenka defeated 18-year-old world number 90 Clara Tauson of Denmark 7-5, 6-4 to move into the Roland Garros third round.

The head of state remarked that the capacity of the Belarusian energy system exceeded 10,000MW. Its “blood” system includes more than 280,000 kilometers of electric networks and 7,500 kilometers of heat networks. The energy system generates about...

A western provocation has become the most likely explanation of the Ryanair plane incident, Aleksei Dzermant, a political analyst and a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, wrote in his Telegram ch...

The relations between Ukraine and Belarus are a test of professional competence for the Ukrainian political elite, Russian political analyst Sergei Mikheyev told the Belarusian TV channel ONT, BelTA has learned.

“No one in the European Union cares about Belarus (no offense, my dear Belarusians). The only thing they want of Belarus is to turn it into ‘Anti-Belarus'. Russia is, of course, the main goal in the fight against Belarus and Ukraine,” said Niko...

"The EEC believes that we need to seriously consider the idea to set up a universal Eurasian mechanism for assessing the quality, effectiveness and safety of medicines," Mikhail Myasnikovich said. "I am talking about an Eurasian medical agency simila...

On 23 May, at 12:25, when the plane was still over the Ukraine, Minsk National Airport received an e-mail with a bomb threat. Five minutes later, air traffic controllers passed the information to the pilots - the plane had just entered the airspace o...

Gomelagrokomplekt and Omsk Oblast have been cooperating for more than 15 years, Minister of Agriculture of Omsk Oblast Nikolay Drofa said.

“Belarus intends to expand economic relations, cultural and human ties that closely link our countries and peoples,” the message of greetings reads.

On 2 June the vice premier paid a visit to a summer camp in secondary school No. 1 in Dubrovno. The all-day camp in the area will begin its work on 5 June, while school health camps opened their doors on 1 June.

Belarus' world number 4 Aryna Sabalenka reached the Roland Garros third round after beating fellow Belarusian Aliaksandra Sasnovich (World No.103) 7-5, 6-3.

Participants of the session will discuss the status of the television and radio broadcasting organization of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. They will also discuss other matters concerning the Union State budget's funding of the work meant to ...